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Friday, October 25, 2002
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1488031 Google Filters Sites in France and Germany Brian Morrissey Search giant Google removes results on its local search engines for over a hundred sites that might be illegal under French and German law, according to research published Thursday by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Researchers found the filtering by comparing results of more than a thousand searches on Google.com for controversial sites, such as the neo-Nazi group Stormfront, with the results for the same search on Google.fr and Google.de, Google's sites in France and Germany. In 113 instances, Berkman Center found the sites were omitted from the search results on the local sites, but not on the Google.com site....
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